October 18, 2012

Ubuntu Gnome Remix - Gnome Shell Remix ends

Below is the posting off the Gnome Shell Remix Blog post. Sad news...
Ubuntu has forked an official Ubuntu Gnome Remix to take its place.
We have to give credit to the Gnome Shell Remix team for showing there is a significant user community for the classic gnome shell.

News About The Quantal Quetzal: 12.10 by jan on 16.10.2012 at 19:34:03

With Ubuntu GNOME Remix coming together with Ubuntu 12.10, there won't be a new version of my own remix anymore.If you want to continue to use the software collection of Ubuntu GNOME Shell Remix 12.04 and 11.10, you can do so. The commands below will install the following software on Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10:
LibreOffice Suite and GNOME Documents (replacing Abiword and Gnumeric)
Software Center and Update Manager (replacing GNOME Software Manager)
Remmina Remote Desktop Client

This is a guide that may help you upgrading Ubuntu GNOME Shell Remix from version 11.10 to 12.04. Please note that it is easier and recommended to upgrade by doing a fresh install. This guide involves using the command line.

The Upgrade Guide

Open the software properties application by typing the following command in a terminal window and disable all PPAs except the GNOME Shell Remix PPA, as packages from PPAs may cause problems during the update.

software-properties-gtk

After doing that, enter the following commands. This will change all the package sources from the 11.10 ones to the new ones from 12.04.

Update the package information:sudo apt-get updateNow you can start the upgrade:

gksu "update-manager --dist-upgrade"

The following procedure is very similar to the update procedure of a Ubuntu installation with Unity. Please note that you may have to open the command window in the upgrade dialog to complete the upgrade.

The Ubuntu GNOME Remix is a mostly pure GNOME desktop
experience built from the Ubuntu repositories. The Quantal Quetzal Beta
Release of Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 is a developer snapshot to give you a very early glance at the next version of Ubuntu GNOME Remix.

What's Included

The
Ubuntu GNOME Remix ships with the GNOME 3.6 release candidate, but GNOME
3.6.0 will be available as updates immediately after the Beta release.
Please see the GNOME Release Notes to see what's new in 3.6.

GNOME Shell 3.6 and GDM 3.6. Among other improvements, the login and lock screen have been redesigned.

Web (epiphany-browser).

Abiword for word processing and Gnumeric for spreadsheets.

Evolution as email client.

Software
(gnome-package-kit), which also includes its own update manager. You
can install updates by opening Software and clicking Check for Updates
in the Software app menu.

GNOME Classic (gnome-panel 3) is included but GNOME Shell is the default session if your hardware supports it.

Boxes is not included as it wasn't working earlier in the release cycle (1038763)
. Also, qemu-linaro (qemu-kvm-spice) doesn't built on i386 in Ubuntu.
qemu-kvm with spice support does build in Debian though on i386. (928432)

Documents is not included as it currently depends on LibreOffice, at least as packaged in Debian & Ubuntu.